Posts Tagged 'meetings'

May 16, 2010

Imagine a meeting. You’re trying to focus on what’s being said, but all you can think about is “This is such a waste of my life. Why am I here?” The clock’s hands aren’t moving and you begin to suspect that the air has been sucked out of the room and replaced with sleeping gas. Sounds familiar?

While we’re all busy and keep running out of time, we can’t avoid getting sucked into black holes of pointless meetings that leave no survivors. Is it the way of the universe to force us to slow down or simply the price we have to pay for working with humans? Anyway, bewailing “Why, God, why?” isn’t going to solve the problem, so let’s talk about what might.

 

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